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About Jennifer E. Telesca

Doctoral candidate at New York University, where she studies law and diplomacy in action. Her ethnography Red Gold: On the Global Politics of Regulating Marine Life opens the black box of global governance, taking the prized bluefin tuna as material to explain how oceans are governed, by whom, for whom, and according to what values and logics. A chapter in the edited volume The New Public Good: Affects and Techniques of Flexible Bureaucracies (Berghahn, forthcoming) details some of her findings. Grant agencies such as the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy have supported her research.

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Current Issue

Our new issue has a dossier on human rights ritualism as its centerpiece, from which we are featuring Zachary Manfredi’s piece on the Russell Tribunal. Also in the issue are three articles on atrocity propaganda, Oxfam’s history, and the uses and abuses of measurement in global malnutrition assessment. Finally, the issue rounds out with a review on recent books on humanitarian advocacy.

Recent Blog Posts

Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies on ‘Law, Governance and Development: Critical and Heterodox Approaches’ (co-edited by Mark Toufayan and Siobhan Airey) The myriad legal and policy instruments in the governance of development have shifted and evolved in significant ways in recent years, posing challenges to scholars, historians, policy-makers and practitioners on how to effectively map, analyse and critique their nature and effects. Contributions are being sought (in French and English) for a bilingual Special Issue of the Canadian Continue reading →

This is part two of a two-part post. Part one is available here. Abstract: Much controversy has arisen around leftist attempts to curb provocative expression, particularly hate speech directed at certain vulnerable social groups. That coupling of leftism with censorship is, however, historically recent. For Marx, controls on speech serve more to hamper human emancipation than to promote it. In this essay it is argued that Marx’s critiques of rights are not as categorical as is sometimes thought. The “property right” paradigm does indeed represent Continue reading →